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Guitar tuners:
Dallas Schoo uses a variety of Peterson strobe tuners for The Edge's guitars.
Peterson V-Sam Tuner
Peterson Strobe Tuners - V-SAM™ Virtual Strobe™ / Audio Tuner with Metronome
Peterson VS-F Strobo Flip
Peterson Strobe Tuners
Peterson VS-R Strobo Rack Tuner
Peterson Strobe Tuners
The Peterson tuners are not cheap but they are amazingly accurate.
Alternate tuners?
Boss TU-12 and TU-2 are good. But for near the same price you can get something far more accurate. What would that be? The TC Electronics Polytune.
It will be the best $99.99 you ever spent. It works for guitar, bass. It can be used as a chromatic tuner, to tune one string at a time.
If you strum all 6 strings it works in "polytune" mode which will show you which of the 6 strings you just strummed are out of tune. Great for fast cleanup of tuning will on stage.
You can also set it to strobe-tune which is very accurate.
You can ALSO set the tuner for a guitar tuning of E, Eb, D, C or B. Helpful if you are switching between E and Eflat tunings.
The "Polytune" mode doesn't work with Drop D, open or modal tunings (alternative tunings) but the it can still be used in the single string at a time "Chromatic" mode.
Again, it will be the best $99.99 you ever spent. It's far more accurate than Boss tuners. (And Boss tuners are not horrible).
A better tuner? Don't know there is one is this price range. The Peterson Strobo-Stomp, and Flip-Strobe are amazing, accurate and $200 to $300.
For my tech gig w/Joshua Tree, I used a Boss TU-12 to get the guitars close and Peterson Strobo-Stomp to dial in the accuracy. I will now be using the TC Electronics Polytune to get things close to perfect and Peterson to get them dead on.
Why not JUST the Peterson? If you've used a strobe tuner you will see that they are very sensitive. So if the guitar is VERY out or you are re-stringing a guitar, the display will spin like the Price Is Right wheel! (until you are closer to in tune) I have just found it easier to get them close with a chromatic tuner and then fine tune with the strobe tuner.
Good tuning will improve your tone. Some tune by ear or get it 'close enough'. But what you will find with a quality tuner is that when you are better tuned and one string isn't just a slight fraction off, your tone will sound miles better. And once your ears get used to it, you will get a better ear for tuning.
Just thought I'd share.
Dallas Schoo uses a variety of Peterson strobe tuners for The Edge's guitars.
Peterson V-Sam Tuner
Peterson Strobe Tuners - V-SAM™ Virtual Strobe™ / Audio Tuner with Metronome
Peterson VS-F Strobo Flip
Peterson Strobe Tuners
Peterson VS-R Strobo Rack Tuner
Peterson Strobe Tuners
The Peterson tuners are not cheap but they are amazingly accurate.
Alternate tuners?
Boss TU-12 and TU-2 are good. But for near the same price you can get something far more accurate. What would that be? The TC Electronics Polytune.
It will be the best $99.99 you ever spent. It works for guitar, bass. It can be used as a chromatic tuner, to tune one string at a time.
If you strum all 6 strings it works in "polytune" mode which will show you which of the 6 strings you just strummed are out of tune. Great for fast cleanup of tuning will on stage.
You can also set it to strobe-tune which is very accurate.
You can ALSO set the tuner for a guitar tuning of E, Eb, D, C or B. Helpful if you are switching between E and Eflat tunings.
The "Polytune" mode doesn't work with Drop D, open or modal tunings (alternative tunings) but the it can still be used in the single string at a time "Chromatic" mode.
Again, it will be the best $99.99 you ever spent. It's far more accurate than Boss tuners. (And Boss tuners are not horrible).
A better tuner? Don't know there is one is this price range. The Peterson Strobo-Stomp, and Flip-Strobe are amazing, accurate and $200 to $300.
For my tech gig w/Joshua Tree, I used a Boss TU-12 to get the guitars close and Peterson Strobo-Stomp to dial in the accuracy. I will now be using the TC Electronics Polytune to get things close to perfect and Peterson to get them dead on.
Why not JUST the Peterson? If you've used a strobe tuner you will see that they are very sensitive. So if the guitar is VERY out or you are re-stringing a guitar, the display will spin like the Price Is Right wheel! (until you are closer to in tune) I have just found it easier to get them close with a chromatic tuner and then fine tune with the strobe tuner.
Good tuning will improve your tone. Some tune by ear or get it 'close enough'. But what you will find with a quality tuner is that when you are better tuned and one string isn't just a slight fraction off, your tone will sound miles better. And once your ears get used to it, you will get a better ear for tuning.
Just thought I'd share.
I never really payed much attention to tuners before. Now I might have to get one of these. I currently use the tuner on my Fender GDEC and it is doing a great job. But I would be much much better off with a tuner pedal for when I have gigs. The tuner on my M13 is off. Is there any way to adjust it? I was thinking there might be a way to adjust the accuracy but I haven't found a way.
